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Heyzap Basic4Android Library and Demo App

Due to popular demand (OK, OK, there were only 2 requests, but that sounds popular enough), here is the Basic4Android Heyzap library along with a demo app on how to use it.

Do sign up with Heyzap with this link if you haven't. They are running a trial for developer reference, and they're giving out to new developers a $10 bonus once you've hit 100k impressions (*T&C apply).

Please note, Google now requires the advertising ID to be used when available on a device for all ad related stuff. Now, if the advertising id is not available on a device, you are allowed to use any other identifier, provided there is a privacy policy detailing this somewhere. I suggest you mention this in a simple privacy policy and link it in your Google Play app page.Heyzap uses an intent approach to get the advertising id of a device, and falls back to non advertising id when it is not available. Therefore, you don't need to add the google play services thing in, but the privacy policy is a must.

When releasing a new app, it is understood that it will rank far down the food chain. After all, your app is new and unproven just yet.

What Google has done on the Play store is that they have given new app an opportunity to live, a chance to get to a more respectable place in the world of the unknown, the Google Play ranking algorithm.

Good looks go a long way in getting downloads for your apps. I'm a fan of looking out for beautiful app designs. I've looked at so many apps, gotten so much inspiration, but have yet to achieve anything that I can be proud of.

Blame genetics if you must. I am a developer, and although I play the guitar and love music and beautiful art and images (even tried photography once), I suck in the design area. I can give an idea, a design, but cant execute it. I'm a coder damnit!